A uniquely 'crisp' ring of gas around a young star 700 light years from Earth offers a glimpse of the mysterious forces that form solar systems. The star, V1052 Cen was detected with the huge 24ft ...

This artist’s depiction shows the planets of the Trappist-1 system and what state of matter water would maintain based on how far they are from their host star. NASA/JPL When astronomers first found ...

A star some 450 light years away was found to have dust and gas rings It led scientists to revisit a solar system formation theory from the 1700s The study opened new possibilities for astronomers to ...

Astronomers have discovered a planet that is too big for its sun – challenging the understanding of how solar systems are formed. The planet, named LHS 3154b, has a mass at least 13 times that of ...

A binary star system is made up of two stars rotating around each other, trapped in a complex dance guided by their gravitational pull. But astronomers have discovered an even more complex kind of ...

When most of us learn about the solar system, it seems like a pretty well-ordered place. Our sun formed first, about five billion years ago, and the planets appeared a little later. As a very general ...

Scientists have watched a solar system being born for the first ever time. Using a powerful telescope, researchers saw the first pieces of material that will go onto form planets. A solar system has ...

Mercury has long baffled astronomers because it defies much of what we know about planet formation. A new space mission ...

When we look out to the stars, it is typically not a yearning for the distant depths of outer space that drives us. When we are looking out there, we are truly looking back at ourselves. We try to ...

The atmosphere around Comet 67P may force a rethink on the formation of the Solar System The Rosetta spacecraft has discovered molecular oxygen in the cloud of gas surrounding the comet it is tracking ...

This is an artist's impression of the exoplanet Kepler-1625b, transiting the star, with the candidate exomoon in tow (Dan Durda) Exoplanets – worlds outside of our solar system – are some of the most ...

The Rosetta spacecraft has discovered molecular oxygen in the cloud of gas surrounding the comet it is tracking. The discovery has come as a complete surprise to scientists who thought that oxygen ...